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Hey. Thanks for chiming in.

Did you and the designers have any guidelines or rules of thumb about groove that informed your design choices?

Do you recall any design choices made that had a large impact on the musicality of the instrument? Any neat epiphanies or breakthroughs?

Do you have any insights about what kind of swing patterns feel the most musical?

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Roger made sure it sounded 'right' but beyond that I had a lot of control over the specifics. I shot for a much higher degree of precision than other instruments (even lots of digital) and more or less hit the target I was going for. Low jitter, under 3ms in all cases I could push it into. Was quite proud of that

Oh tons and tons of design ideas... I plan on blogging about them at some point once I am more steadily designing my own instruments, right now it would just help the competition. Been writing out articles. I'll post some here when I do

It depends on the bpm and the intention. A swing for jazz is much different than for house or hip hop.

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